"Rogan, according to Harris, had agreed to interview her in Detroit, before reconsidering and asking to record in Austin, TX where he is based. Harris said that was a big ask, considering every minute in a swing state mattered at that point late in the election. But she wrote that she was game, despite reservations from some of her team if they could wedge it in."
"Even though most of my team thought doing the interview at all was a gamble, and other bluntly argued it was a bad idea, I really wanted to do it, Harris wrote. One podcast was not going to win or lose the election. But Rogan's audience was young and male. I wanted to reach those guys who might not otherwise hear from me."
"So Harris said her team reached out to Rogan on Oct. 18 about setting up an interview for Oct. 25, when she would be in Houston for a rally. Rogan's team told her it was a personal day for the podcaster, and asked if she could make the morning of Oct. 26 work which Harris' staff said would not work on their end."
A tentative Joe Rogan interview was scheduled for late October during a swing-state campaign. Rogan initially agreed to Detroit then requested Austin, creating significant travel burdens. The campaign aimed for an Oct. 25 slot in Houston, but Rogan's team said Rogan had a personal day and proposed Oct. 26, which the campaign could not accommodate. The personal day was later used for an interview with Donald Trump, producing the scheduling conflict. Rogan disputed the campaign's framing and maintained that Trump had been booked earlier.
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